Breath of Fire II: Breath of Fire 2 GBA Palette Hack

Breath of Fire II: Breath of Fire 2 GBA Palette Hack is a modification for the Game Boy Advance version of Breath of Fire II. This patch restores the original SNES color palette, enhancing visual consistency by removing gradients and adjusting font colors. While the gameplay remains simplified compared to the SNES version, the patch aims to improve the game's aesthetic appeal for a better portable experience.

A few years back a guy named Lord Asaki released a Super Mario World palette hack, which made me realize that there were lots of other GBA games that had awful awful colours. Breath of Fire 1/2 were some of the worst offenders, as were any of the Blizzard ports.

Fast forward to today, ludmeister's Breath of Fresh Fire 2 patch gets posted, and I realize that others might be interested in the work I did.

So here is a small patch that restores the full SNES palette to Breath of Fire 2 on the GBA. There are a few GBA unique screens that I didn't bother to change as they didn't look that bad, and I also tweaked the battle/text boxes to look more consistent with the style of the game (no more ugly gradients). The game is still horribly flawed by how easy it was changed to be for the GBA, but I hope that this patch will at least make it a little easier on the eyes.

Breath of Fire Palette Fix v1.0 by gukid ([email protected])

Reason:
I wanted a portable BoF2 that didn't burn the eyes, so I broke out the APE, snespal and xi32 to insert the snes palette. Also removed the ugly gradients and the yellow font colour in battles. The game should look much more consistent now.

How to apply:
Get a US Bof2 gba rom (may work on the UK version, is there one?) and patch away. I suggest LunarIPS.

HELP!
This would be a useful patch, except for the fact that the game is extremely "crippled". Enemies give much more exp and gold to the point that after simafort, most enemies and bosses can barely even touch you. I would love some help fixing this, by putting the enemy stats back to what they were also in the snes version, or even balance em out.

If you, or anyone you know thinks they could help, I'd love to hear from you. Even if you can just make a simple editor for modifying the exp and gold values of the enemies, I could probably rough out the grunt work.

I'm also interested in adding in the missing intro parts from the Japanese BoF2 gba, if it's at all possible.

Special thanks to:
Lord Asaki - his SMW palette hack was what motivated me to actually try and do this.

Breath of Fire 2 (U)(Mode7).gba
CRC32: 23279C91
MD5: 64B080F50BAF634EEC9BCA41420D0F97
SHA-1: 3A769B7C93688B9C38C3D8EEDA6EBF1E7B9F82BE
SHA-256: 6277C5DD46B9ED1D514D40F27F84A0BF8E5A10C0AE0115F717683D226531D35D

GBA Cores

Time to Beat

Main Story 36h 42m

Main + Extras 42h 30m

Release Date

Mar 5, 2012

13 years ago

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